It should be interesting to know that annakkiLi reportedly shattered the previous record of 'elanthappazham...chekkachchevantha pazham' in disc sales.

It was either kumudam or vikatan that claimed it those days when celebrating 'machchAnappAththeengaLA', the fantastic SJ number that catapulted IR into fame!

Also, we can see from the disc cover that all songs are crediting Panju Arunachalam as the lyricist. While he would have made a number of "fixes" to some existing folk songs for cine field (and thus rightly earns the lyricist credits), the originals must be acknowldeged at this point of time

As per a recent video on 'iLayathaLam' (was it supposed to be IR's official facebook page), the original folk song for 'annakkiLi onnaththEdudhE' had 'puLLi pOtta ravikkaikkAri' as the "pallavi" (or starting lines) and the "annakki-i-Li onnaththEduthE" occured in the middle. That got rotated around by the Panju-IR team to fit the filmy requirements!

The song kEttELE was banned in AIR and didn't get air time while kaNNan oru kaikkuzhandhai was their darling

The front cover featuring Rani Chandra (as told in the IR-PS thread, she got killed in air crash prior to the movie's completion and a double was used)...Malayali actress who looks like a "mix" of Sujatha & K R Vijaya...

Couldn't easily get hold of disc covers for uRavAdum nenjam & pAlootti vaLarththa kiLi, the other two 1976 movies of rAsA.

So, moving on to 1977 films.

If someone gets hold of the vinyls / covers of these two movies, please upload the pictures and share the links in this thread.

Let's try to capture as much IR disk covers as possible!

(I would like to limit to "record" covers...however, for some rare ones, even the inlay cards of cassettes will be appreciated if such collections help to identify lyricists and other details hitherto unknown or not much discussed).

Front cover, as expected, features Sivaji prominently and shows the heroini Sujatha too:(BTW, the "Suresh" of Suresh arts, the production company, must be the son of actor Balaji and now the brother-in-law of Malayalam icon Mohan Lal)

Back cover has rAsA's picture ; gives the info that all songs got penned by Pulamaippiththan. (I think he was a MGR regular those days, possibly was in ADMK also...interesting to see him writing for Sivaji).

No other 1977 cover is seen in our present hunting ground...since this is our first target, let's get all those AVAILABLE, QUICKLY (as much chronologically linear as possible) and then worry about others

Another disk cover that does not list the name of the director - Bairavi

Looks like it wasn't that big a deal those days, espcially if the director was a newcomer or someone without much acclaim. IIRC, this movie was produced by KalaignAnam who was in the business for at least another decade...

Rajanikanth & Snake featured in the front cover (giving one a 'dEvar films' / 'rAma nArayana' feeling). The posters were similar and until I came to tfmpage, I automatically assumed that those TMS songs were by Shankar-Ganesh Even after knowing that those were by IR, I'm yet to develop friendliness to the naNdooruthu nariyooruthu & kattappuLLa kuttppuLLa...

Rear cover has IR...three songs by Kavingar and the fourth one by someone not much known to me...